On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:59:15PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > > > Shea Levy <s...@shealevy.com> skribis: > > > >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 03:38:01PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> The patch below allows files such as /nix/store/foo to be protected from > >>> GC if a root refers to them. This makes it easy for a build hook to use > >>> such files for its temporary working files. > >>> > >>> WDYT? > >>> > >> > >> It seems a bit odd to me to be using the store as a temporary file > >> location. What's wrong with $TMPDIR? > > > > Well, this is useful for build hooks, because it guarantees that any > > garbage they leave there will eventually be reclaimed. > > It also guarantees that this thing lives on the same file system as the > store, which means that rename(2) can be used to move it to its final > location in the store. >
Hmm using the store as an auto-collected $TMPDIR seems wrong, but this is a decent argument. Do you have a specific use case already planned? > > Ludo’.
